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Devereux — Volume 06Devereux — Volume 06I ARRIVED at St. Petersburg, and found the Czarina, whose conjugal perfidy was more than suspected, tolerably resigned to the extinction of that dazzling life whose incalculable and god-like utility it is reserved for posterity to appreciate! I have observed, by...
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Devereux — Volume 03Devereux — Volume 03SPINOZA is said to have loved, above all other amusements, to put flies into a spider's web; and the struggles of the imprisoned insects were wont to bear, in the eyes of this grave philosopher, so facetious and hilarious an appearance,...
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Devereux — Volume 02Devereux — Volume 02IT had, when I first went to town, just become the fashion for young men of fortune to keep house, and to give their bachelor establishments the importance hitherto reserved for the household of a Benedict. Let the reader figure to...
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Pelham — Volume 08Pelham — Volume 08 Say. Ay, but I hope your Highness shall have his. 2nd Part of Henry IV. Punctual to his appointment, the next morning came Mr. Job Jonson. I had been on the rack of expectation for the last three hours previous...
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Devereux — Volume 01Devereux — Volume 01IN this edition of a work composed in early youth, I have not attempted to remove those faults of construction which may be sufficiently apparent in the plot, but which could not indeed be thoroughly rectified without re-writing the whole work....
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Pelham — Volume 06Pelham — Volume 06The whole country was in confusion at the news of the murder. All the myrmidons of justice were employed in the most active research for the murderers. Some few persons were taken up on suspicion, but were as instantly discharged. Thornton...
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Pelham — CompletePelham — Complete Ou peut-on etre mieux quau sein de sa famille?French Song. [Where can one be better than in the bosom of ones family?] I am an only child. My father was the younger son of one of our oldest earls; my mother...
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Pelham — Volume 04Pelham — Volume 04How well I can remember the feelings with which I entered London, and took possession of the apartments prepared for me at Mivart's. A year had made a vast alteration in my mind; I had ceased to regard pleasure for its...
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Pelham — Volume 07Pelham — Volume 07I rose at my usual early hour; sleep had tended to calm, and, I hope, also, to better my feelings. I had now leisure to reflect, that I had not embraced my party from any private or interested motive; it was...
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Pelham — Volume 02Pelham — Volume 02I dined the next day at the Freres Provencaux; an excellent restaurateur's, by-the-by, where one gets irreproachable gibier, and meets no English. After dinner, I strolled into the various gambling houses, with which the Palais Royal abounds. In one of these,...
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Pelham — Volume 05Pelham — Volume 05My pamphlet took prodigiously. The authorship was attributed to the most talented member of the Opposition; and though there were many errors in style, and (I now think) many sophisms in the reasoning, yet it carried the end proposed by all...
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Pelham — Volume 01Pelham — Volume 01I am an only child. My father was the younger son of one of our oldest earls; my mother the dowerless daughter of a Scotch peer. Mr. Pelham was a moderate whig, and gave sumptuous dinners; Lady Frances was a woman...
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Pelham — Volume 03Pelham — Volume 03I had received for that evening (my last at Paris) an invitation from the Duchesse de B. I knew that the party was to be small, and that very few besides the royal family would compose it. I had owed the...
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Eugene Aram — Volume 04Eugene Aram — Volume 04We left Walter in a situation of that critical nature, that it would be inhuman to delay our return to him any longer. The blow by which he had been felled, stunned him for an instant; but his frame was...
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Eugene Aram — CompleteEugene Aram — Complete If none of my prose works have been so attacked as Eugene Aram, none have so completely triumphed over attack. It is true that, whether from real or affected ignorance of the true morality of fiction, a few critics may...
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Eugene Aram — Volume 05Eugene Aram — Volume 05It was now the morning in which Eugene Aram was to be married to Madeline Lester. The student's house had been set in order for the arrival of the bride; and though it was yet early morn, two old women,...
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Eugene Aram — Volume 02Eugene Aram — Volume 02Aram's affection to Madeline having now been formally announced to Lester, and Madeline's consent having been somewhat less formally obtained, it only remained to fix the time for their wedding. Though Lester forbore to question Aram as to his circumstances,...
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Eugene Aram — Volume 03Eugene Aram — Volume 03One evening Aram and Madeline were passing through the village in their accustomed walk, when Peter Dealtry sallied forth from The Spotted Dog, and hurried up to the lovers with a countenance full of importance, and a little ruffled by...
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Zicci: A Tale — CompleteZicci: A Tale — Complete In the gardens at Naples, one summer evening in the last century, some four or five gentlemen were seated under a tree drinking their sherbet and listening, in the intervals of conversation, to the music which enlivened that gay...
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Eugene Aram — Volume 01Eugene Aram — Volume 01If none of my prose works have been so attacked as "Eugene Aram," none have so completely triumphed over attack. It is true that, whether from real or affected inorance of the true morality of fiction, a few critics may...
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